Postdoctoral Research Associate

2 weeks ago

Durham, United Kingdom Durham University Full time

**Postdoctoral Research Associate (SME Scaling with a Purpose)**
**(**
**Job Number**:
**23001758**
**)**

Faculty of Business

Grade 7: - £37,099 - £44,263 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

**Contract Duration***: 2 years

**Contracted Hours per Week***: 35

**Closing Date***: 17-Dec-2023, 5:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement***: Not Applicable.

**Job Title**:Postdoctoral Research Associate (SME Scaling with a Purpose)**
**Department: Durham University Business School**
**Grade: Grade 7**
**Salary range**:£37,099 - £44,263 per annum**
**Working arrangements: This is a full time role, consisting of 35 hours per week.**
**Closing date: 17th December 2023**

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**The Role and Department**

Our vision is to lead business thought and practice to improve global wealth and well-being. Our associated mission is to create, share and use knowledge to deliver equitable and sustainable futures around the world. We pursue this mission by advancing world-changing knowledge and securing global impact through increasingly collaborative research across disciplines and around the world.

**The Role**

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the Scale with a Purpose (SwaP) research project. SwaP aims to support the ecosystem of purpose-led SMEs in the North-East of England. You will work alongside local purpose-led organisations to help develop training initiatives designed to inspire, initiate, and scale their activities. Specifically, you will work closely with industry collaborators on the project to help develop, pilot, and launch professional qualifications for purpose-led organisations in the North-East of England (e.g., social enterprises, charities and/or commercial SMEs). This will involve bringing your expertise into the role to help shape the underlying research agenda and how it translates into real world impact.

The successful applicant will work alongside the project PI, Prof Jonathan Kimmitt, and the project partner as well as the rest of the academic project team. The role is funded by Durham University Business School’s Smart & Scale initiative which is an interdisciplinary impact-driven research programme in smart and scale-up activities, focusing on innovation and business development of SMEs in the North-East of England.
- Responsibilities:

- To work with the Principal Investigator and other colleagues in the research project, as appropriate, to develop, pilot and launch the collaborative training initiative whilst, developing new research and extending the research portfolio.
- To assist with the development of research objectives and proposals.
- To conduct individual and collaborative research projects under the direction of the Principal Investigator
- To facilitate publishing high quality outputs, including papers for submission to peer reviewed journals and papers for presentation at conferences and workshops under the direction of the Principal Investigator or Grant-holder.
- To deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines by discussing with the Principal Investigator and other colleagues in the research project and offering creative or innovative solutions.
- To prepare and deliver presentations on research outputs/activities to audiences which may include research sponsors, academic and non-academic audiences.
- To liaise with research colleagues and make internal and external contacts to develop knowledge and understanding to form relationships for future research collaboration.
- To plan and manage own research activity, research resources in collaboration with others and contribute to the planning of research projects.
- To contribute to fostering a collegial and respectful working environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect.
- To engage in wider citizenship to support the department and wider discipli

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